I have long believed that Sun worship makes the most sense of all our religions. Most good things on Earth come from the Sun directly or indirectly, and it exerts great and mysterious influence on us.

However, I have now decided this is weaksauce and instead to worship the super-massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, as the embodiment of order, balance, and creative destruction.

I like it. Reminds me of the ancient religions, where death and creation were often represented by the same god. And makes me think of the now cliched Vishnu quote "I have become death, the destroyer of worlds".

I might consider it, if he's a fully-modern god. A deity for the internet age. Can I pray via email? Does he accept paypal? And will my prayers be answered within three working days?

There you go with the anthropomorphism again; what makes you think a god would be male or female like some lowly terrestrial life form? Sagittarius A* eats black holes (no "ho's") and entire star systems for lunch!

Well, as the First High Druid of Sagittarius A*, I suppose I could designate you as the FaceBook High Druid of Sagittarius A* and/or the Twitter High Druid of Sagittarius A*. Then we could spread worship of the Epic Creator and Destroyer of Worlds in a modern fashion.

As I said, it's the embodiment of order, balance, and creative destruction. It's a super-massive black hole, acting like the furnace of our Galaxy. What would you suggest in the way of aesthetics and transcendent mechanisms?

Sorry I had interpreted the * as some sort of cross reference to a copyright notice.

BoneKracker wrote:

As I said, it's the embodiment of order, balance, and creative destruction.

You are making a serious confusion with what could stand as your catechism.

BoneKracker wrote:

It's a

Look, you are starting completely wrong, saying what it is !
You can say it is about a pair of shoes, toothpaste or a notageek's post, you definitely cannot say it is about whatever god. (Apart of course if you intention is to degrade it to the inferior condition of a pair of shoes, toothpaste or a notageek's post. But I think it cannot be the intention of a First High Druid.)

BoneKracker wrote:

What would you suggest in the way of aesthetics and transcendent mechanisms?

I still cannot write any aesthetics without the transcendent gadgets you apparently fail to provide.

Tip and tricks : The transcendent gadgets generally derive from three concepts :
- Eternity
- Full rational knowledge of everything (This including knowledge of existence as a concept)
- Non caused cause of everything

Here you are... go on BK ! Feel free to elaborate from there. And do not forget, words such as supraliminokalifragilistik are much more welcome than neutrons or toothpaste.
It will be of great help to the First High Druid if he needs to obtain some...
Mandate from the masses...

To sum up with, your god is not born... yet.
A First High Druid... could be...
But... we already had one, hadn't we ?_________________

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Sorry I had interpreted the * as some sort of cross reference to a copyright notice.

BoneKracker wrote:

As I said, it's the embodiment of order, balance, and creative destruction.

You are making a serious confusion with what could stand as your catechism.

BoneKracker wrote:

It's a

Look, you are starting completely wrong, saying what it is !
You can say it is about a pair of shoes, toothpaste or a notageek's post, you definitely cannot say it is about whatever god. (Apart of course if you intention is to degrade it to the inferior condition of a pair of shoes, toothpaste or a notageek's post. But I think it cannot be the intention of a First High Druid.)

BoneKracker wrote:

What would you suggest in the way of aesthetics and transcendent mechanisms?

I still cannot write any aesthetics without the transcendent gadgets you apparently fail to provide.

Tip and tricks : The transcendent gadgets generally derive from three concepts :
- Eternity
- Full rational knowledge of everything (This including knowledge of existence as a concept)
- Non caused cause of everything

Here you are... go on BK ! Feel free to elaborate from there. And do not forget, words such as supraliminokalifragilistik are much more welcome than neutrons or toothpaste.
It will be of great help to the First High Druid if he needs to obtain some...
Mandate from the masses...

To sum up with, your god is not born... yet.
A First High Druid... could be...
But... we already had one, hadn't we ?

Meah... I think you're full of crap. I think being the embodiment of creative destruction is, by definition, highly transcendental. Also, since it has no sex, what other singular, gender-neutral pronoun could I use to refer to a super-massive black hole?

I think being the embodiment of creative destruction is, by definition, highly transcendental.

a/ No it cannot be !
b/ The problem you are facing here is to invent some transcendent gadget. Transcendentalism has nothing to do here and will be of no help apart for the reader to understand that you are talking bullshit.
c/ Don't try calling for Kant's help.

BoneKracker wrote:

Also, since it has no sex, what other singular, gender-neutral pronoun could I use to refer to a super-massive black hole?

Pffffff... When I pointed out the error you made with IT IS, You had a probability of 1/2 to understand it correctly !
And you got it... wrong !

As usual on OTW, when I complain about "WHATEVER IS", I do not complain about the subject. I don't care about the subject. I mean writing [WHATEVER-AS-SUBJECT] [TO-BE-CONJUGATED]
IS wrong !
So I don't care a damn whatever pronoun you take, it, he, she, il, elle, es.........
Just do not say : Whatever-pronoun-referring-to Sagittarius A* IS ! PERIOD.

All your own crap only proves two things :

- You are not illuminated ! It is an obvious evidence that Sagittarius A* neither illuminated you nor granted you with whatever grace.
Hence, as First High Druid, you are nothing but an usurper.
- You are an heretic !

Okay, here's your transcendent "gadget": Sagittarius A*is the Universe. It's a supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy, but it's also simultaneously the outer surface of the Universe, as Sagittarius A* shows us by the sign of the Twisted Loop around its Holy Singularity, which is the Blessed Infinity Symbol, a Holy Mobius Strip, and a Sacred Torus all rolled into one! It creates and destroys everything in this neck of the woods, but that's just part of it's power; it is actually Everything At Once (all that has been, and all that will ever be)!

Hah ! Good ! We are progressing ! This is indeed a truely clever concept. Almost certainly full of potentiality. (I mean capability of power)
Let's see if we can build something interesting from there...

BrrzzZ..GrGrGr...Hmpffff...pshshpsh... DING! NO!

OK, lets admit your AmstramGramVI#*$ is Everything_At_Once.
- First problem : If AstraRothIII% is Everything_At_Once then it necessarily includes itself.
So we must say that AsdtrPRsf8,5& = AsdtrPRsf8,5& U Everything_ELSE_At_Once
Then either your Sagimachin~#{ is alone in this set OR we are going to face a big problem with cardinality.

- Second problem : SagiTrucMuche cannot be alone in this set because as it is everything_at_once, it was everything_at_once yesterday and it is everything_at_once today and the same for tomorrow. (This being said taking the time as one dimension, I perfectly accept the idea that Zglormp* has got nothing to do with time but what I write for time is worth for any other dimension. And you cannot object that because it is a black hole it has no dimension, because per virtue of its definition Everything means everything that is to say including all possible thinkable dimensions) Therefore, your SgLObMouch includes all possible occurrences of itself.

=> You definitely face a problem with cardinality.

Oh Wait ! That does not mean this Everything_At_Once concept is absurd and must be discarded. No No !
It just means that it cannot stand alone. It just means that you need another transcendent concept.
Nothing but normal... I already told you... you need at least 3.
So now you know what to look for : Find a concept that works around the cardinality problem you are facing.

If you succeed... I cannot tell what sort of award you'll get from STRADIVARIUS*£ but... for sure... you'll not be that far from a Fields medal._________________

Hah ! Good ! We are progressing ! This is indeed a truely clever concept. Almost certainly full of potentiality. (I mean capability of power)
Let's see if we can build something interesting from there...

BrrzzZ..GrGrGr...Hmpffff...pshshpsh... DING! NO!

OK, lets admit your AmstramGramVI#*$ is Everything_At_Once.
- First problem : If AstraRothIII% is Everything_At_Once then it necessarily includes itself.
So we must say that AsdtrPRsf8,5& = AsdtrPRsf8,5& U Everything_ELSE_At_Once
Then either your Sagimachin~#{ is alone in this set OR we are going to face a big problem with cardinality.

- Second problem : SagiTrucMuche cannot be alone in this set because as it is everything_at_once, it was everything_at_once yesterday and it is everything_at_once today and the same for tomorrow. (This being said taking the time as one dimension, I perfectly accept the idea that Zglormp* has got nothing to do with time but what I write for time is worth for any other dimension. And you cannot object that because it is a black hole it has no dimension, because per virtue of its definition Everything means everything that is to say including all possible thinkable dimensions) Therefore, your SgLObMouch includes all possible occurrences of itself.

=> You definitely face a problem with cardinality.

Pffffttt... Sagittarius A* transcends petty human concepts such as "cardinality, causality, and time". Maybe you missed the part about the Mobius Strip / Infinity Sign and fail to understand the Mystical Power of supermassive black holes.

Here's another one for you: the Great Gift is that, whenever something happens you don't like, all you have to do is say (profoundly), "THE CYCLE CONTINUES", and it no longer matters any more.

Pffffffftttt yourself ! I have no problem to accept that StraDivarIUS-mk4 transcends or ignores whatever human concepts. PROVIDED : You tell us HOW !
SO you MUST invent a new concept that makes SupERBK12 transcends or ignores all this.

Tip & Trick (Used by more reknown god inventors)
You can forge a word. Let's say InDirectredeunconversation. And leave to further generation the responsibility to define exactly what this means.

So, you theory (Precisely used her for what it etymologically means : I see god) would look something like :
Everything_At_Once is a quality of StrAponTINIUS'7 which operates by InDirectredeunconversation.

BoneKracker wrote:

Here's another one for you: the Great Gift is that, whenever something happens you don't like, all you have to do is say (profoundly), "THE CYCLE CONTINUES", and it no longer matters any more.

Don't mix things now. It's far too early.
What you write there will indeed be necessary but it definitely belongs to a Salvation Doctrine.
We are working the gadgets. Goodies will come next._________________

Pffffffftttt yourself ! I have no problem to accept that StraDivarIUS-mk4 transcends or ignores whatever human concepts. PROVIDED : You tell us HOW !
SO you MUST invent a new concept that makes SupERBK12 transcends or ignores all this.

Sagittarius A* works in mysterious ways. Ours is not to reason why; ours is but to do and die.

aCOSwt wrote:

Tip & Trick (Used by more reknown god inventors)
You can forge a word. Let's say InDirectredeunconversation. And leave to further generation the responsibility to define exactly what this means.

Yes. This reminds me: to walk the Epic Path of Enlightenment and glimpse the shadow of the Grand Mystery of Sagittarius A*, one must first submit to the Dialectical Scyentosophy, which elucidates the Transmutative Immanence of Sagittarius A*

aCOSwt wrote:

So, you theory (Precisely used her for what it etymologically means : I see god) would look something like :
Everything_At_Once is a quality of StrAponTINIUS'7 which operates by InDirectredeunconversation.

BoneKracker wrote:

Here's another one for you: the Great Gift is that, whenever something happens you don't like, all you have to do is say (profoundly), "THE CYCLE CONTINUES", and it no longer matters any more.

Don't mix things now. It's far too early.
What you write there will indeed be necessary but it definitely belongs to a Salvation Doctrine.
We are working the gadgets. Goodies will come next.

Do not belittle the Scyentosophic Transmutative Mystery of The Great Gift!

High Druid BoneKracker, do not bandy words with the French humanist infidel. Instead, issue a fatwa and stuff him in the Holy Singularity._________________The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell